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Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick


Born
in New York City, The United States
April 17, 1928

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Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.

Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."

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Average rating: 3.71 · 38,221 ratings · 3,833 reviews · 108 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Shawl

3.90 avg rating — 4,836 ratings — published 1989 — 50 editions
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Heir To The Glimmering World

3.17 avg rating — 2,124 ratings — published 2004
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Foreign Bodies

3.19 avg rating — 1,822 ratings — published 2010 — 28 editions
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The Puttermesser Papers

3.61 avg rating — 1,564 ratings — published 1997 — 20 editions
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Antiquities

3.43 avg rating — 1,108 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions
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The Messiah of Stockholm

3.53 avg rating — 739 ratings — published 1987 — 20 editions
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Dictation: A Quartet

3.38 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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The Pagan Rabbi and Other S...

3.77 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions
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The Cannibal Galaxy

3.63 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics...

3.75 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions
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“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
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“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
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“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
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Polls

May 2017 Short Story Poll

 
  71 votes, 22.9%

Night by Elie Wiesel, 120 pages, 1958
 
  44 votes, 14.2%

 
  36 votes, 11.6%

 
  22 votes, 7.1%

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, 124 pages, 1856
 
  18 votes, 5.8%

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen, 54 pages, 1958
 
  16 votes, 5.2%

 
  16 votes, 5.2%

 
  14 votes, 4.5%

The Garden Party and Other Stories Title Story by Katherine Mansfield, very few pages, 1922
 
  13 votes, 4.2%

Passing by Nella Larsen, 122 pages, 1929
 
  12 votes, 3.9%

R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, 58 pages, 1920
 
  12 votes, 3.9%

 
  11 votes, 3.5%

Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 88 pages, 1872
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, 69 pages, 1989
 
  8 votes, 2.6%

 
  7 votes, 2.3%

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